Engineer Electrical Engineering

WOUTER STEVEN VENTER

Local Address: **** * ****** ***, ******, Ca 93720

Phone 714-***-**** Email: ********@*****.***

EDUCATION

California Polytechnic State University San Luis Obispo, California

Major: Polymer Chemistry/ Electrical Engineering

• Graduated June 2006

RELATED COURSEWORK

Chemistry Lab Experience

• X-ray/ UV-vis/Infrared Spectroscopy

• NMR/FT-NMR Spectroscopy

• Atomic Absorption Spectroscopy

• Fluorescence Spectroscopy

• AFM/SEM

• HPLC

• Affinity/Column/Gas/Gel Chromatography

• HAZWOPER: First Responder Awareness

Electrical Engineering Lab Experience

• Test-rig Setup & Characterization of OLED/LED

• Basic Labview Programming

• CAD/Cam 40 hrs Experience

• PCB Manufacturing

• Fiber Optic Testing Procedures

• PSPICE, MATLAB, C, Turbo Pascal, VHDL

INTERNSHIPS & EXPERIENCE

DuPont Displays -Santa Barbara, CA Aug ’07 – Aug ‘10

Materials Engineer I

• Manufactured Organometallic thin films for Organic LED Devices

• Extended small molecule Blue OLED device lifetime by several thousand hours

• Improved Small Molecule Solution based Pixel Printing Process

• Optimized Solvent bases

• Chemical Mask Patterning for better Pixel definition

• Advanced theoretical model of Blue OLED device Functioning & Degradation

• Extensive experience with Organic Vapor Phase Deposition

• Micropatterning with Shadow Masks

• Co-Deposition & Doping

• Built & Characterized OLED Devices on Daily basis

• Six Sigma Certification

• Designed improved test methods for faster research and better device quality

• Enhanced out coupling factor of OLEDs with Irregular Microlens Array

• Applied DuPont Intellectual Property to OLED Lighting Partnership with DOE

Vista Paint Coatings Corporation – Orange County, CA Aug ’06-Aug’07

R&D Chemist I

• Researched Waterborne Alkyd Emulsion in Coatings

• Developed Light Industrial Direct-to-Metal Coatings

Research: Organic Photovoltaics Cal Poly Physics Dept. SLO, CA Dec’05-Jul’06

Research Member

• Designed Hybrid Organic Dye Sensitized Solar Cells in Multi-disciplinary team

• Presented Research poster at the 2006 Materials Research Symposium

Co-Op: DuPont Titanium Technologies – Wilmington, DE Apr-Sept 2005

Pigments Co-Op Intern

• Investigated Experimental Titanium Grades in flat coating systems

Internship: Dunn Edwards Coatings Formulation – Los Angeles, CA Jun-Aug 2004

Coatings Intern

• Trained interns in al major skills of coatings formulations and analysis

PUBLICATIONS

1. A Novel Technique to Study OLED Function (with M. Sims, I.D. Parker) SID Int. Symp. Digest Tech. Papers 39,

223 (2008)

2. Optically-detected charge density dynamics in organic light emitting diodes (OLEDs) SPIE, Volume 7415,

pp. 74150D-74150D-12 (2009). (Not an author – Nominated in Acknowledgments)

PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS, CLUBS&AWARDS

Professional Societies: SID, SPIE, MRS, IEEE, Cal Poly Honors Program (2 Yrs)

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